Clay exhibit to Jorgenson Fine Arts Center Gallery

Wednesday

Aug 28, 2013 at 11:28 AM

Drew Van DykeMMI Editor

For its first showing of the 2013-14 season (as well as for the first time in the locale now referred to as the Evelyn E. Jorgenson Fine Arts Center Gallery, after the namesake, recently-departed college president), Moberly Area Community College will be hosting a Missouri Regional Ceramics exhibit starting tomorrow (Thursday, Aug. 29).

The exhibit, titled "Centering Clay," will run through Friday, Sept. 27.

A reception for this show is from 2 to 5 p.m., on Monday, Sept. 16.

The Moberly Area Council on the Arts is assisting in putting on the event at MACC.

The exhibit was open to works from persons who reside in the state of Missouri, as well as in the states that border Missouri (Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska). The "Missouri Regional Ceramics" description refers to the classification and scope of view of the gallery, Jorgenson Gallery director Andrew Glenn told the MMI on Tuesday night. Regional galleries, for example, are lower on the artistic totem pole than national and international ones, but higher than, say, a local business' (for example, a bank's) gallery.

Traditional, experimental, functional, sculptural, and installation pieces were all considered for display by an unnamed jury.

Glenn noted that between 18 and 20 participants will have their art on display throughout the entirety of the exhibit.

On Mondays through Thursdays, the gallery will be open from 7 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. On Fridays, it will be open from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m.